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Feb 13
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How to simplify payment processing and PCI compliance

Each seller faces the complexity of the business and compliance requirements. From restaurants to dry cleaners, the challenges vary far and wide. However, the common requirement of each share is a need for means of safe, effective and affordable to get paid. Payment processing is a necessity for all businesses, and it comes with compliance mandates.

Retailers many decisions facing the management of their operations from day to day can be intimidating, but getting paid and maintaining compliance not be if traders have access to accurate information and good partners. Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a measure of security mandate to protect consumer cardholder data and trade. Compliance PCI is built on a bedrock of principles and requirements helps to secure personal data and protection of enterprise environments market. The main areas of concern for merchants and service providers to become and stay PCI compliant are listed below.

Build and maintain a safe

1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect data Holders
2: Do not default passwords of the system and the use of other security settings provided by Seller

Protect cardholder data

3: Protect stored data holder the card (or do not store it all)
4: Encrypttransmission of cardholder data across open, public networks

Maintain a vulnerability management program

5:, maintain and update anti-virus regularly Use
6: Maintain secure systems and applications

Implement access control measures

data Ownership: 7 Restrict access to one, if necessary, companies need to know basis
8: Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access
9: Restrict physical access to data

Monitor and Regularly test networks

10: Monitor and control access to network resources and cardholder data at any time
Test regularly: 11 security systems and processes on a

Maintain a policy Security Information

12: Establish and maintain policies against information security

A proven method for protecting cardholder data is to use payment processing services that use technology atomization.

Tokenization is the process of replacing sensitive data with values ​​that are not considered sensitive in the context of consumption of the environment the symbolic and the original data sensitive. Tokenization technology can be used with all types of sensitive data, including transactions banking, payment transactions, medical records or loan applications, to name a few.

According to Visa, atomization can be described as a process in which the PAN data is replaced by a proxy known as a "token". The security of an individual token is on the properties of uniqueness and the infeasibility of determining the origin PAN knowing only the replacement value. For reference or the replacement for the original PAN, a token can be used freely by the systems and applications within a market environment.

Card Not Present e-commerce transactions (CNP) at the retail point of sale (POS) transactions, there are tools and providers services available to help merchants achieve PCI compliance. However, depending on your approach to compliance, PCI can be complex, long and costly. An alternative to treating all related to PCI compliance tasks in the home is choosing a merchant service provider can assist in processing payments, cardholder data security and compliance certification. For example, electronic payment Exchange (EPX) and spray based ™ EPX BuyerWall system act as a platform for third treatment giving high priority to PCI compliance and service end to-end domestic and international payments at point of sale (POS) or online.

This approach puts a wall between cardholder data and the merchant by separating the card number information on sales and processing the transaction independently of the merchant or other suppliers. EPX is capable of doing that because he controls both the front and back end of the transaction. With EPX BuyerWall, the responsibility associated trade with the risk of processing, transmitting and storing sensitive data holder is significantly reduced because the sensitive data does not enter the system Merchant and its never stored by the merchant.

According to Steven Kendus, Marketing Director of EPX, "ensuring increased focus on PCI compliance, EPX is revolutionizing the payments industry through our platform, and integrated payment processing solutions that combine the atomization and encryption. "

Customer using solutions based tokens receive multiple layers of security protection for merchants and data holders are protected against data breach liability. "By integrating our patent-pending spray BuyerWall and encryption technology our payment solutions, we lead the way in helping merchants achieve compliance PCI, "adds Kendus.

providers of payment services as Electronic Payment Exchange that takes security and compliance into account to provide a critical need for retailers and independent sales organizations (ISO). They enable merchants to process secure transactions efficiently, which nets the customer service and retention for merchants.

To learn more about how EPX atomization of solutions based on the processing of payments to help merchants implement PCI compliance, visit EPX in online or in their Virtual Booth on PaymentsMarket.com

About the Author

Jeremy Drzal is Chief Engagement Officer for insideVirtual and Managing Editor for PaymentsMarket, the first and only virtual market for payment and fraud industry solutions.

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Nov 02
2010

The Importance of PCI Policy and Procedures for Payment Card Industry Compliance

PCI policy and procedure documentation is a highly critical component for ensuring compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) provisions.  Many merchants, service providers and other organization requiring PCI compliance quickly realize that developing this documentation is an extremely large part of the overall assessment process.  Unfortunately, most organizations lack the time or internal resources in developing PCI policy and procedure material.  What’s more, many organizations fail to recognize that policies are needed for all other 11 PCI requirement areas and not just requirement 12, which mandates to “Maintain an Information Security Policy”.

If you read through the current PCI DSS version (1.2.1) requirements, there are many areas calling for documented PCI policies for a wide variety of I.T. resources that relating to the cardholder data environment.  Among the more notable requirements are the following:

  • Data Retention and Disposal Policy
  • Anti-Virus Policies and Procedures
  • Password Management rules
  • Firewall Policies and Procedures
  • Change Management Guidelines

This is just a small sample of a select few PCI policies that will be required for ensuring compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) initiatives.

Requirement 12, “Maintain an Information Security Policy” is a comprehensive mandate calling for numerous policy and procedure documentation to be in place, such as the following:

  • Formal Risk Assessment and Risk Management Program
  • Security Awareness Program
  • Usage Policies for all en-user technologies and company resources
  • Incident Response Plan
  • A detailed list of Information Technology roles, responsibilities, and requirements for various personnel.

The efforts required in drafting, revising, and publishing these documents is taxing indeed, which is why many merchants, service organizations and other related parties seek out PCI policy and procedure templates from a trusted, known source.

Consultants in the payments industry are currently charging organizations high fees for developing PCI policy documentation for purposes of compliance, which is beginning to become an ominous issue for many businesses.  The solution is find a reputable vendor selling PCI policy templates you can use.

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